Quotes About Inequality

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

But it seems to be a law of human constitution that those that deserve shall not have and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. - More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927

Y la iglesia era sabia, sutil y conocía muchas maneras de esquilmar una oveja, o una nación.

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. - The Prince and the Pauper

What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.

Your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I can't; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this.

Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie.

Stigma" is a dressed-up word for ignorance and prejudice.

This is not fun. This isn't fair.

There were people of every stature, but amongst them, the poor were the most easily recognised. The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip - the relative you cringe to kiss.

Killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.

because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait.

La política de la envidia a veces se limita sinceramente a la idea de que "queremos lo que ellos (mujeres, inmigrantes, miembros de la élite) tienen". Pero a las personas les encanta moralizar su envidia y, muy a menudo, lo que empieza siendo pura envidia deriva hacia un "son malas personas, no merecen lo que tienen".

Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.

His wife died from being too lower class. She wasn't up to it.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.